don't you hate it when you wake up with a sore throat?

i got to sleep in this morning, cause english class was cancelled! of course, english class was canceled so we could work on our papers, which are due tommorow morning, and i havent started mine yet. but i think i know what i'm writing on. something about how the stories we've been reading suggest that you become a woman through accepting your connection to your family (that you can shame them, bring dishonor, etc) and also accepting the negative ideas about womenhood (like submiting to a patriarchial society, and the whole curse of eve thing) sounds like fun, huh! we've read a bunch of lovely stories about girls' coming of age, which are invariably depressing. full of single pregnant women commiting suicide, and girls thinking they're dying when their period starts, because their mothers never talked to them about it. blech. gender in 20th century literature has been an interesting class, at least.

my brother's visit has been pretty good so far, except for the times when a grumpy jonathan, grumpy sarah, and grumpy ben have jangled on each other's nerves a bit. :oP i think that naps should be mandated by law. or something.